Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1930, Page 21

~ SPORTSMEN SEEK ' GAME PROTECTION lzaak Walton Chapter to a3l More Stringent Laws of Maryland Legislature. fi g @pecial Dispaten to The Star. BALTIMORE. July 14—In an at- tempt to have the next Legisiature pass | & number of more stringent game laws, the members of the Izaak Walton B v THE EVENING Ask No Questions ( By Beldon Duff ‘ Copyright, 1080, By Werth American Newspaper Alliance, e, | presently, near the rock-bound pool, lhe! young man paused. laid aside his bi- | cycle, and from under a lilac bush pro- | duced a spade and pickax. Armed with these two implements, he commenced to diz near the giant bowlder that perched on the pool's rim. For about 20 minutes Cropsey watched. Unable to control his cur osity any longer, he was just about to| _ (Continued EIGHTEENTH INSTALLMENT. | ECAUSE Alva Cropsey thought| he could do his deductive rea- soning better with a trout rod in his hand, he was late for supper. And because he was Iate for supper he again missed meeting | league, Sportsmen’s Chapter No. 5 of Baltimore, have drawn up and pledged | themselves to Support several tentative laws. Foremost among the new laws which | the league advocates are Prohibition of purse netting in Mary- | land waters. | Prohibition of the sale of large and | small mouth black bass. Tohibition of the pollution of which results in killing game fish, Prohibition of the sale of Fabbits. In order to have State-wide support when the next Legislature swings into action in 1931, the league has sent out letters to many Maryland spor asking that they ta to ther Senators and Delegates and persuade them to vote for the new measures. The league claims that passage of the more strin- | gent laws would soon result in better fishing and ting througout the Sta | 17 COMPANIES JOIN IN REFINING PROCESS | Standard Announces Organization | Expected to Double 0il Production. streams | wild { men By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 14.—The Standard | ©il Co. of New Je! announced today | organization of a company under which | & new refining process is made available to 17 oil companies. The announcement | describes the process as capable of | doubling production. | Oil men expect the new process to| become an important factor in the con- | trol of crude oil production and price | cutting. ‘The new company, called the Hydro Patents Co., controls use within the United States of the new proc. s which ‘was developed by the Standard Oil of New Jersey and the German 1. G. Far- benindustrie All the stock of the Hydro Patents Co. will be held by com- panies using the process in the ratio of their crude-ofl running capacites. In return for use of the process the Rew company will pay a fixed and rui ning royalty to the Standard of New Jersey and the German I. G. Farben- industries. The companies involved are Atlantic Refining Co., Barnsdall Corporation, Cities Service Co., Continental Oil Co., clair Refining Co., panies of California, Indiana, New Jer- v, New York and Ohio, the Texas Co., n Oil Co. of California and the| Vacuum Oil Co. The total crude running capacity 3,700 barrels daily. led capacity of t while the total ¥ ed States is 3,765, tndustry in the 885 barrels dai 500 MEN COMBAT | OREGON FOREST FIRE| 4,000 Timbered Acres Burned Over;| Lightning Starts Second . Fire. By the Associated Press . BEND, Oreg., July 14—Five hundred | men, including 100 delegates to the | United Spanish War Veterans' State | convention here, today formed a nine- | mile long line to combat a spreading | forest fire in the Oascade foothills, | which already had burned over 4,000 | timbered acres. Although controlled yesterday, the | fire broke over the lines in two places | and raged in yellow pine timber. Fire fighting units” concentrated near Big Springs, where the conflagration seemed the fiercest F. H. Brundage, chief of fire control | work in’the North Pacific region, ac- | companied by the convention delegates, | augmented forces arriving from the | Klamath Basin responding to calls for | volunteers, While smoke-blackened men fought this fire, another started, apparently | from lightning. Rangers in Mount | Washington foothills sald strong winds | whipped the fire into major propor- | tions during the night. In the Sisters | district and Crescent Lake country, they | said, flames were beyond control, al- though small damage was expected be- | cause of its Temoteness from valued | timber. l Former Delaware Official Di MILFORD, Del., July 14 (#).—George H. Hall, 78, former secretary of the State of Deleaware ,died toda: his mys Mr. strai iss Malvina informed him as soon as step out from concealment when the | ground for 20 feet around where the young man was digging gave way, and with a muffied cry Mr. Watts disap- | empty. | dawn on me that we were in a deserted | house. It smelled deserted, if you know | | reason to dismount. He e set foot in the Apple Blossom. Cropsey had his lamb cutlet and cherry_turnover alone. Then he took his coffee to the comparative quiet of the floor above. Mr. Watts' door, he noticed as he passed, was closed. ‘Welghing_the ibilities which the situation afforded, it became appare that a wingchair in Miss Malvina's sit- ting room would give the best the short hall. True to expectations, the door of Mr Watts' room opened presently, and the youngster in baggy golf trousers and & sweater emerged. He had a small—a very small—mustache and light brown hair. There was nothing to distinguish | him from 9 out of any 10 young men one might meet of & morning in the New York subwa Cropsey felt disap- pointed. Even a mousy villain ought to look a little villainou er a cautious survey, which en- falled to take cognizance of the watcher in the wingchair, Mr. Watts tiptoed along the hall and down the stairs, Cropsey gave him a full minute be- fore he followed. The young man had gone around the side of the house toward the barn. He returned presently pushing a bicycle. Well, there was nothing to do now but follow as rapidly as those same long legs could carry him and to trust to luck. Luck has a feminine way of accom- modating those whose trust is egotis- tical enough. In Cropsey's case she pro- vided a farmer going to Hales Crossing in a Ford. . ‘The managing editor asked for a lift, and got Rattling along beside the aunt, faced New Englander, he tried to make himself agreeable, and at the same time to get on with his sleuthing, but the moment he used the word “murder” his companion shut up like a clam at low tide. “Let me off at the Wood road,” said the exasperated Cropsey at last. ‘When the Ford came at last to a jerky halt, the farmer seemed to have arrived at a conclusion of some sort. “Thar's the Wood road,” pointing to a lane between rows of trees, “but if you be a stranger in these parts, take my advice and keep offen it—tonight. Cropsey paused in the act of swing- ing himself out. “Why tonight?” But the clam had retired into its shell again, and the best he could get was a surly Temark to the effect that Hales Crossing folks was jest about sick an’ tired of the goings on down that way. Proceeding as fast as he dared for fear of missing the trail, at the end of the first half mile he nearly overran his quarry. Mr. Watts had been forced for some had stopped in a patch of light which the early rising moon had considerately let down through the interlaced branches of the trees, and was doing something to his bicycle. Cropsey came to a precipitous halt in Aft tirely | a ditch half full of mud and water. Mr. Watts seemed suddenly satisfled with repairing job, for he started off again at heart-breaking speed. The remaining two and a half miles to Brides House were in the nature of an endurance test, but they were covered at last. Cropsey judged it must be about a quarter to 9, as having given the low, white dwelling & wide berth, hunter and hbunted began what seemed to_be an aimless circling of ihe red barn. But New liquid drops are safe 'O excuse for painful corns and calluses. 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In' the middle of the light’ swam the face of Mr. Watts, so smeared with mud it looked like a fried sole on a platter. “I've found it!” came the announce- ment in a joyous whisper, Cropsey lay flat on his stomach and leaned as far as he dared into the hole. “Found what?” “Why, the tunnel, of course. “I knew I'd find it if I kept on long enough, I| | told them at the time of Claudia’s dis- appearance there was an underground | passage of some sort, but they wouldn't | believe me.” ‘The managing editor of the Daily | Free Press did not hear the last part of | this 'speech. Those two words, “Claudia’s | disappearance,” had set the wheels of the deductive - reasoning machine to working so furiously as to drown out everything else. He leaned into the hole. | | “Now who might you be, young | man?—if you don't mind my asking so personal a question.” “Me?” There was & constrained pause. “I'm Willie Prentice—the Willie Prentice—Claudia’s husband. It was | my wife who was spirited away from the :muse over there, almost six months Cropsey, who was no swearing man, sat on the edge of the hole and tried without success to recall some of the oaths he was accustomed to hear in the press room when the paper was a few minutes late. He would have liked to p feellngs into virile, he-man language. Do you want to give me a hand up?” asked Willie Prentice mildly. after some scrambling the fallen exca- VAtor was retrieved, Go on, youngster, tell me-about it.” What he had to tell began with starkly pitiful account of two fright- ened young people wandering through night and a New England biizsard. “Our opening a strange door and going in wasn't so imprssible as the news- papers made it sound,” he said, “Claudia what it was, embers, She — Claudia — flopped right down in front of it, on the warm Stones; and 1 started looking around and calling to see where the folks were who lived there, I even went upstairs to the bed rooms, but tney were all And by and by it began to what I mean. Cropsey nodded. He thought he, too, had caught that Guriously dead and empty smell in Bride's House, Then,” went on_ young Prentice, hen's when I said I'd go down cellar Claudia—" his voice shook with sudden emotion—"Claudia didn't want me to e her. She sald she was afraid; but I said I'd be right back. Well, sir, 1 got an armful of logs and T was half- way up the stairs when—you don't have to believe me if you don't want to—I heard some one walking up those stairs beside me. I dropped the logs and stretched out my arms, but there wasn't to see could I find some more wood. | TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, Claudia screamed. It was the most terrible scréam I ever heard in my lue.l My head hurts now when I think of it, ‘William Prentice cleared his throat. | as though & kwife had been lluekn:'ltlll rough and the wound hadn't healed. Of course, I ran like mad, back to the living room. There was no one there. Claudia had disappeared. “And what did you do then?” asked the managing editor, more to help the anguished recollections to escape from was awful cold when we got to the |this poor tortured brain than because he house, and nearly exhausted. BShe had | really had to be told. to have shelter and didn't care much | There were the tag ends | from room to room. Beat on the walls. of & fire on the hearth. Just a few red | Swore. Praved. “I went kinda crazy, I guess. Ran It didn't do any good. My wife was gone.” With a hopeless gesture, “In the morning I walked to the main road and some one in & Car picked me up. Since you've been read- iny up on the case, I guess you know the rest. Cropsey said, “There's one more thing I'd like to ask you before we start ploring the tunnel. This talk of & uarrel with your bride—a threat. At the time you were arrested you denied it; but now, as man to man, I ask you. Was there anything in it?" For a moment Willle was silent. Then he said, “I didn’t want to make a miess that would hurt Claudia’s reputation That's why I denied it. Even if they'd hanged me I wouldn't have told them. But_now"—Ilooking up—"I think I can trust you.” Desperately, “I've got to trust somebody. You're the man who's going to help me. You've a right to know. 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